Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.
Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.
Ya, I wouldn’t personally call all those orange myself to be honest. All colour names are arbitrary but orange especially so since its a more recent invention (on a historical time scale) and our brains do some funky post processing stuff to differentiate it from brown (which is the mostly the same hue as orange, just dull as opposed to vibrant). So what exactly counts as orange is a bit of a mess even compared to other colours.
Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.
That’s also why hunting clothes are orange camo. Invisible to the prey, clearly visible to the fellow hunter.
Also why your dog can’t see the red ball in the green grass.
tigers are orange?
Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.
you must have edited that page after i have read :)
Fascinating. Though quite a few of the tiles don’t look orange to me at all.
same here 🤷
look at just the burnt umber and papaya whip(?)
Ya, I wouldn’t personally call all those orange myself to be honest. All colour names are arbitrary but orange especially so since its a more recent invention (on a historical time scale) and our brains do some funky post processing stuff to differentiate it from brown (which is the mostly the same hue as orange, just dull as opposed to vibrant). So what exactly counts as orange is a bit of a mess even compared to other colours.
i know that some cultures used the same word for blue and green. They didn’t perceive 2 different colours but hues of, for example, glaz.
orange is linked to the fruit in many languages. that’s why i posted those 2 photographs together.
Orangutans too are orange and i’m sorry for writing this sentence :) At least they’re not striped.
The question is, are they black with orange stripes, or orange with black stripes?
same as zebras, which are black with white stripes